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Void of Course (Boulevard of Bad Spells and Broken Dreams Book 1) Kindle Edition

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Taina Aponte, the sole survivor of an arson fire that killed her family, was taken to safety in Puerto Rico by her grandmother to escape the wholesale destruction of The Bronx. Thirty years later Taina, now a witch and still haunted by her memories, is back in the hood.

She’s inexperienced in urban magick and ill-prepared to battle the roving gangs of dhampirs and werewolves that set The Bronx aflame and wrested control from the police. But time is running out to find those who set the fire—and why.
Taina’s search for the murderers uncovers a vast werewolf/dhampir conspiracy—and an alliance of fae to aid in her quest for justice. It’s not long before she realizes she needs more than the elderly
santera who teaches Taina mysterious Santeria rituals.

She enters into an uneasy alliance with Arnaldo Arroyo, a reformed addict turned community activist who schools her his own special mix of sex magick and
brujería.

The truths she uncovers shake her faith in everything and everyone she ever knew. Will she give up and run? Or will she accept the mandate of the
orishas to restore the balance between good and evil and take back the neighborhood?

Product details

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0B1T7Z2DG
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Champagne Book Group (May 26, 2022)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 26, 2022
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 5.7 MB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 420 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

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Carole Ann Moleti
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Carole Ann Moleti is a nurse-midwife in New York City, thus explaining her fascination with paranormal and urban fantasy that infuses everything she writes. Both her fiction and non fiction focuses on women's and political issues. The Unfinished Business series of Cape Cod Paranormal Romances begin with a Victorian time slip and ends with a Category 5 hurricane. Carole's dark short fiction is featured in the Ten Tales Series: Haunted, Beltane, Seers, and Bites as well as The Hell's Kitties, Hell's Mall and Hell's Heart anthologies. Boulevard of Bad Spells of Broken Dreams Book One: Void of Course, is set in her hometown of The Bronx, still recovering from the arson of the 1970s and 1980s, prostitution, and the drug trade morphing from heroin to crack, to crystal meth and fentanyl.

Excerpts of Carole's memoirs, Someday I'm Going to Write a Book: Diary of an Urban Missionary, and Karma, Kickbacks and Kids range from the sweet and inspirational in This Path and A Quilt of Holidays to the edgy and irreverent in Not Your Mother's Books: On Being a Woman and On Being a Parent. Her two contributions to the award winning feminist anthologies Shifts and Impact, include her powerful essay on women's rights "I Have Not Forgotten How to Fight."

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  • Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2022
    This is the first book in the series and I can't wait to read the rest. Carole Ann Moleti has weaved a tail of Fae, Vampires, Werewolves, and Witches living and fighting in the Bronx. The mystery surround her family's death motivated Taina's journey to find the killers by honing her magic and learning how to trust the right people. Moleti's creativity with characters, setting, and plot had me reading way into the night. I just had to know what happened! Her writing is skilled and so many phrases I re-read because they were--magical. I have to admit, this isn't the type of book I normally read and now I'm thinking I need to broaden my reading choices.
  • Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2024
    VOID OF COURSE is an urban fantasy in the Bronx, populated by vampires, werewolves, fae, and Taina Aponte, sole survivor of an unknown arsonist who killed her family when Taina was five. Decades after the tragedy, Taina, a bilingual, bisexual Latina haunted by memories, hungers for justice and returns to the Bronx. She’s an inexperienced witch who doesn’t understand or recognize her power. She makes enemies even faster than she makes friends. Rival gang leaders, a dhampir and a werewolf want Taina’s loyalty—or her blood. The fae want a leader. A good Samaritan wants more than Taina is offering—or is it? Taina needs a job while she’s investigating the murder and is hired by the court as a victim’s advocate. Plenty of victims in the hood, still tangled in the long cold case. Magic, an adorable familiar, helpful and kind humans, and zombies round out the cast. The story starts as many good stories—with the reader—and Taina—tossed into a mess. Easier for the reader to disentangle. Action is reasonably paced and builds to a satisfying (mostly) crescendo. Void of Course is the first book in the “Boulevard of Bad Spells and Broken Dreams” series. I’m looking forward to reading Book-2. Rated four-and-a-half stars, but the app wouldn’t accept the “half”.
  • Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2024
    In Void of Course, Taina Aponte comes back to her hometown of New York, from Puerto Rico where she now lives, to uncover the mystery of who killed her parents and sister in an apartment fire while she survived. The author incorporates supernatural characters alongside the regular humans, or Mundanes, as they are referred to in the story. Three males; a vampire, werewolf, and witch are all trying to woo and seduce her, yet she rebuffs them all, but leans toward one. The other characters are very interesting; birds and rats who are really fae and are all allies in her quest for the truth. Fun read. I feel a Book 2 is in the works? Looking forward to reading it!
  • Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2022
    Reviewed by Linda Tonis
    Member of the Paranormal Romance Guild Review Team
    Twenty-six years ago, at the age of 5 Taina Aponte lost her parents and sister when their apartment became engulfed in flames. Taina was the only survivor because out of desperation her mother threw her out the window saving her life. Taken to Puerto Rico by her grandmother and raised there she now finds herself consumed with the desire to find who killed her family despite how much time has gone by.

    Taina is now in the Bronx where she lost everything and is looking for any information that will lead to the killers but all she remembers from that time is that someone caught her and the detective investigating the case was detective Kelly. If she can find the man who caught her, she is convinced that she will be able to get answers, unfortunately, she has no idea how her search will affect her life.

    She is met by Raul Rivera a dhampir willing to help her but what would his price be for that help. She finds that her ex-girlfriend has contacted a friend, Arnaldo Reyes, enlisting his help in protecting Taina. Arnaldo is an ex-drug dealer and user with a very shady past and though he has done everything in his power to make up for his past she finds herself needing his help even though she doesn’t really trust him.

    Raul wants her to join him and treats her with respect, as much as someone like him can but there is the other evil, Lupo Lopez the leader of the werewolves who wants to control Taina and Arnaldo comes to her rescue when she is trouble, which is very often. Helping her are the fairies who hide their presence by appearing as birds, squirrels, rats and other small creatures. It was the fairies that not only offer her aid but believe she is the White Witch who will be the savior when a battle between good and evil happens. They are also the ones that presented her with a small white dog who will become her best friend and protector, small but deadly.

    Taina gets a job as a victim’s advocate and most of the cases involve her two enemies, Raul and Lupo, which puts her in the line of fire. She is surrounded by Raul’s gang, Lupo’s gang that includes zombies, so her life is in constant danger. She discovers that both Raul and Lupo were involved in her family’s death but as she closes in on the person who threw the match, she will lose her faith in all those around her. Her magic is not powerful, but she is determined to stop Lupo and Raul even if it costs her life.

    This book is perfect for anyone who loves paranormal, zombies, fairies, werewolves, vampires, magic, surprises, lies, violence, secrets and sex. I especially loved it because I was born and raised in the Bronx and visited many of the places mentioned in the book, it was like a visit to my past. The book does leave a lot of unanswered questions which I can’t wait to have answered in the next book, hopefully it won’t be a long wait.

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